tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73165006438482482.post6921240362430903840..comments2024-02-06T09:59:18.569-11:00Comments on The Virginia Flaggers: Fallout From The Va Flaggers Anniversary Celebrations - Changing Hearts & MindsConniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08696918266055510131noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73165006438482482.post-14667623156144962472016-10-02T13:21:04.628-11:002016-10-02T13:21:04.628-11:00I love the potbellied piggy!I love the potbellied piggy!C.W. Rodenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04720242706965307970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73165006438482482.post-57529043811016136562016-10-01T00:37:02.002-11:002016-10-01T00:37:02.002-11:00Something worth pointing out to the uneducated (es...Something worth pointing out to the uneducated (especially college students and any budding historians) is that News, by definition, is NOT the norm. What makes the News newsworthy is that News is all about the unusual... those things that are different from everyday life. And that’s been the Rule of News here in the U.S. for well over two centuries.<br /><br />Over the last week millions of elderly folks went shopping without incident. Millions of parents did NOT beat their kids to death. Millions of young folks didn’t shoot anybody. There were millions and millions of uneventful Police-Citizen interactions. And as a rule, Historians are notoriously bad at grasping the basic implications of the Rule of News.<br /><br />What’s interesting now is that the Virginia Flaggers are becoming more newsworthy because they haven’t been newsworthy... no violence, none of the hate mongering or any of that stuff. The anti-Confederate PC Media witch hunt dominated news reporting for so long that it created an illusion of what was “normal”.<br /><br />So now the Virginia Flaggers doing what they’ve always done looks new and unexpected to folks.<br />Steve Gambonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09966177363147209946noreply@blogger.com